Last Thursday (April 12) inside dressing room 36E at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, the top 14 finalists on the latest season ofAmerican Idolcontinued a tradition that began years ago: one by one, each contestant sat down with Billboard for their first major interview since reaching this...
This year’s collection of top 14 finalists onAmerican Idolreturned to Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 2 to get ready for the season 17 live shows and the final phase of the competition. Less than 24 hours later, they followed a tradition that began years ago by sitting down with Billboard...
He was the opener on The Weeknd’s sold-outAfter Hours Til Dawnstadium tour in Europe and South America, and also performed keys, guitar, and sax during The Weeknd's set. Mike Dean also scored the entirety of HBO'sThe Idolalongside Abel Tesfaye and Sam Levinson, and stars as himself in...
It also includes actual singing competition alumni, including Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo (the married couple who competed on American Idol) and Leah Lewis (The Voice Season Four). Guest stars include Sasha Pieterse (Pretty Little Liars), YouTube stars Sam Tsui, Todrick Hall and Tim DeLaGhetto...
Now, all these years later, the popular country song could be responsible for launching the career of not one, but two young singers. When 16-year-old Layla Spring of Lebanon, Kentucky, first appeared on stage for her “American Idol” audition, she brought along her adorable little sister...
Amber Holcomb may have gotten precious little screen time leading up to Vegas Week on Season 12 of American Idol, but rest assured there were plenty of musical moments percolating in the Texas teenager's car.
The Olympics, for example, used to be a grand, uniting spectacle watched the world over. Now NBC, the exclusive broadcaster of the events,struggles with low U.S. viewership.American Idoldrew 38 million American viewers at its peak, more than the entire population of California at the time....
Trending on Billboard Bryan admitted on-air that he made his choice at the last minute. “Right after Dimitrius was given the news that he was not voted through, he gave his best performance of the whole contest,” the country star toldBillboardafterward. “It’s tricky with Dimitrius. Ma...
Trending on Billboard On day three of a four-day stay at Aulani, Billboard spent the afternoon with Seacrest and the latest incarnation of the judging panel. How has being connected to American Idol changed you? Lionel Richie: I can answer that. Now when I’m in restaurants or walking ...
Olivier Bergeron’s moving cover of Jelly Roll’s “I Am Not Okay” earned high praise from the artist himself during American Idol’s Top 24 round.